Richest businessmen by today's money

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kerry van Ekeren (Australia) on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 04:44 am:

Henry Ford came in at third,
J D Rockefeller was #1
Andrew Carnegie #2
and Bill Gates at 4


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gary H. White - Sheridan, MI on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 09:24 am:

That's OK. I'd settle for third.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Dimock, Newfields NH, USA on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 10:54 am:

I'm headed for third from the bottom!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jon Crane on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 01:16 pm:

What is the source of this list? Just wondering?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 01:20 pm:

Jon, it's on the internet. It must be true.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kerry van Ekeren (Australia) on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 05:33 pm:

It was a broadcast segment on TV 'Finance News' just some trivia to fill in time I suppose.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Howard Koehn-Western KS on Thursday, August 02, 2012 - 09:57 pm:

Steve: I recently read on the internet a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln. "You can't trust everything you read on the internet" LOL


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 10:41 am:

Here's another take on that, by "Celebrity Net Worth": http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/25-richest-peop le-lived-inflation-adjusted/#!/

They tried to rank the 25 richest persons ever adjusted to today's dollars. Ol' Henry came in ninth with $199 billions.

Richest ever? A rather unknown king of Mali during the 14:th century, Mansa Musa I, with gold and estate valued at $400 billions today. He controlled half the world's supply of gold and salt in those days.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Darel J. Leipold on Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 11:30 am:

When Henry was worth a billion dollars, $5 a day was a great wage. Some worked for a dollar a day. $5000 would build a big estate home and a new Ford cost $300. Over 90 percent of Henry's worth went to the Ford Foundation.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Robert Poane on Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:15 pm:

Howard, that's funny!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Patrick on Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:38 pm:

Check out http://marketspost.com/ten-richest-people-time/. I thought Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor were probably richer than Ford. Jim Patrick


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Noel D. Chicoine, MD, Pierre, SD on Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 02:33 pm:

I think it depends most on who is doing the calculating!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Joe Van Evera on Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 04:36 pm:

And yet.... I'll bet that on their deathbed, not a single one thought about wealth...... with the possible exception of Carnegie, who wanted to (and did, I guess) give all his wealth away.....


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 05:29 pm:

The St. Louis Public Library has just completed a $70 million dollar restoration in honor of its 100th birthday. It was one of the libraries that Andrew Carnegie provided the money for. Some of Carnegie's living relatives from Scotland will be flown over for the gala event. The Scottish community (The Scottish St Andrew Society of Greater St. Louis and the St. Louis Scottish Games Inc.) is having a party the night before the gala at the Schlafly Tap Room to meet the Carnegie family members who are coming over.

Trivia: the Scottish members of the community have taught the Americans that the proper pronunciation of the name is not CAR-neg-ie, as it is heard here, but rather Car-NEGG-ie.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Bohlen, Severn MD on Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 06:40 pm:

Jim,

When J. P.Morgan Sr. Died in 1913 he was reportedly worth $65 million. When John D. Rockefeller heard of this he remarked: "and he didn't even die a rich man."

Larry


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By William L Vanderburg on Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 07:41 pm:

Cornelius Vanderbilt was ranked in a 2007 study as the second wealthiest person in American History if his total wealth was applied to the GDP in 1877 when he died with the same formulas today.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By William L Vanderburg on Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 07:43 pm:

If you adjust for inflation, J D Rockefeller was the richest person in world history.


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